-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Fish wrote:
>On 2/26/06, gentuxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Why in the world to I need Apache, php(4), and a whole host of other >>packages (22 to be exact) just to install NTP? > > >Probably because your USE flags are telling portage that you want all >of those dependancies. > >If you don't have USE=nodroproot (which would be a bad idea, BTW), ntp >depends on sys-libs/libcap. > >sys-libs/libcap depends on dev-lang/swig if you have USE=python. > >dev-lang/swig depends dev-lang/php if you have USE=php. > >dev-lang/php depends on apache. > >...and so on. > >If you want to avoid such dependancies, you should set USE=-* in >/etc/make.conf, and then set each USE flag specifically for each >package that you want it on in /etc/portage/package.use. If you do >this, be very careful in the conversion of your system, as you can >break things easily (for example, if you have pam, and end up with >-pam.) > >-Richard > rdate doesn't give me the functionality that I'm looking for as it expects to connect to the (x)?inetd 'time' subdaemon, instead of an ntpd server. But, removing some of the "heavier" USE flags (php, apache2, etc.) brought me down to net-misc/ntp and 2 other dependencies (libcap and swig), which I thought were acceptable. - -- gentux echo "hfouvyAdpy/ofu" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 34CE 2E97 40C7 EF6E EC40 9795 2D81 924A 6996 0993 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEAimcLYGSSmmWCZMRAqOjAJ4lPQIGYkAsrEH3/noBOZApVCk1ZACdG044 JPRhokC0OZPKH1QdeRrzklY= =QC30 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
